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Pentland, John

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Pentland, John

Former (left at end of session) Scottish Labour Motherwell and Wishaw

Politically, you're most like McTaggart, Anne Lab — similarity 71.9/100.

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Divisions voted in
782
last on 16 Mar 2016
Party alignment
100.0%
0.0% rebellion
Attendance
95.6%
36 "Not Voted" of 818 divisions present
Motions lodged
179
146 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
1,501
296 chamber · 1,205 committee
Allowances claimed
£2,951
31 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
petitions ·231 continued ·148 petition ·45 question ·41 time ·41 education ·35 audit ·35 budget ·31 report ·27 accounts ·24 proposal ·23 bill ·19
Recent motions & questions
Motion success

Of the motions they've lodged that went to a vote, how often did the chamber agree.

Lodged
179
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
179
Closest voting allies

MSPs who voted the same way most often across shared divisions.

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MSPs like this one

Composite of voting agreement, sponsorship overlap, and Hansard topic affinity. Weighted 50 / 25 / 25.

Voice fingerprint

Words and phrases this MSP uses far more often than the chamber average (TF-IDF over their Hansard contributions).

clerk submissions note clerk invite contributions motherwell wishaw motherwell submissions invite wishaw new petition clerk spice ravenscraig nhs lanarkshire interest petition
Career arc

Unified timeline: party joinings, seat changes, committee appointments, ministerial roles.

  1. ☷
    Left Public Petitions Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  2. ☷
    Left Education and Culture Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  3. ⌂
    Stood down from Motherwell and Wishaw (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  4. –
    Left Scottish Labour
    23 Mar 2016
  5. ☷
    Joined Public Petitions Committee as Substitute Member
    02 Sep 2015
  6. ☷
    Joined Education and Culture Committee as Member
    02 Sep 2015
  7. ☷
    Left Public Petitions Committee
    02 Sep 2015
  8. ☷
    Left Public Audit Committee
    02 Sep 2015
  9. ☷
    Joined Public Petitions Committee as Convener
    13 Jan 2015
  10. ☷
    Left Public Petitions Committee
    13 Jan 2015
  11. ☷
    Joined Public Petitions Committee as Member
    08 Jan 2015
  12. ☷
    Left Justice Committee
    08 Jan 2015
  13. ☷
    Joined Public Audit Committee as Substitute Member
    03 Sep 2013
  14. ☷
    Left Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  15. ☷
    Joined Justice Committee as Member
    03 Sep 2013
  16. ☷
    Left Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  17. ☷
    Joined Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee as Member
    05 Jun 2013
  18. ☷
    Left Subordinate Legislation Committee
    04 Jun 2013
  19. ☷
    Joined Subordinate Legislation Committee as Member
    22 Dec 2011
  20. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Regeneration Committee as Member
    22 Dec 2011
  21. ☷
    Left Finance Committee
    21 Dec 2011
  22. ☷
    Joined Finance Committee as Member
    01 Jun 2011
  23. ⌂
    Started representing Motherwell and Wishaw
    05 May 2011
  24. +
    Joined Scottish Labour
    05 May 2011
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Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Topical Question Time Chamber
    22 Mar 2016
    No. I am quite happy with that answer—especially considering that the minister might be running out of breath.
  • Topical Question Time Chamber
    22 Mar 2016
    I thank the minister for that reply. I am sure that he will not be surprised to hear that I consider that getting people back into their jobs is the priority. …
  • Topical Question Time Chamber
    22 Mar 2016
    To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on negotiations to save the steel plants at Dalzell and Clydebridge. (S4T-01367)
  • General Question Time Chamber
    17 Mar 2016
    Although that is appreciated, the key question is not what the Scottish Government has done but where it is going. It is now more than five months since Tata S…
  • National Performing Companies Committee
    08 Mar 2016
    Everyone else has taken the opportunity to plug something, so I will plug Motherwell concert hall and theatre, which has some terrific star attractions over th…
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